Pervasive Participation Workshop

Zusammenfassung:

Following contextual design in a real world setting, we identified individual and social aspects, as well as needs and desires of different citizen groups that motivate citizen engagement. Through eight in-depth interviews and observations we gathered detailed qualitative data on why and when citizens participate and derived requirements for pervasive devices that aim to advance citizen e-participation. Addressing citizens personally, interaction among co-located people, communication of the opportunity to engage and low participation barriers turned out to be the key drivers for creating useraccepted pervasive participation concepts. Also, we present different identity models that capture personal values relevant to participation. Scientists and practitioners alike can use these data to create meaningful and effective ubiquitous applications for situated civic discourse and participation.

Tscharn, R., Löffler, D., Lipp, D., Kuge, J., and Hurtienne, J. 2015. Senior, Follower and Busy Grumbler: User Needs for Pervasive Participation. Paper accepted for the Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2015). Osaka: September 7–11, 2015.